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By Lauran Neergaard for AP News Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it’s a vexing decision. “Not everybody’s going to like the answer,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National…
By Scott E. Rupp for For the Record Take the long view and—despite recent job losses—coding remains a strong career path. So far, the first year of the second decade of the 21st century has brought a lot of uncertainty—to say the least. Through April, more than 30 million people had filed for unemployment as…
By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review West Virginia had the highest percentage of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression in the last week of June, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The data is from the Household Pulse Survey 2020, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in partnership with the National Center for…
By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding, and synthesizing many puzzle pieces from disparate systems and people. Many patients coming in with COVID-19 related pneumonia are demonstrating…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Finding, accessing, and paying for healthcare in America requires so much work that half of consumers have avoided seeking care altogether, a new survey has found. More than two-thirds of consumers said every step of the healthcare process is a chore. Most said they don’t know how much a…
By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review Northwell Health rapidly developed a care program to treat more than 150 severely ill COVID-19 patients at home in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases in New York this spring, reports The New York Times. The home care program relies on a team of specialists who use telehealth…
By Jackie Drees, Laura Dyrda and Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review The need for technology and digital capabilities accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the importance of data and virtual monitoring to care for all patients while hospitals focused on patients with the virus. Since March, Becker’s health IT team has spoken with several…
By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News With healthcare organizations around the world leveraging cloud technologies for key clinical and operational systems, the industry is building toward digitally enhanced, data-driven healthcare. And unstructured healthcare data, within clinical documents and summaries, continues to remain an important source of insights to support clinical and operational excellence. But there…
By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review Click-heavy interfaces, multiscreen workflows and scrolling through pages of notes for information are some of the characteristics of EHR systems associated with burnout and fatigue, according to a study published June 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers conducted…
By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Sepsis-3 is celebrating its fourth birthday this year, and while it can be hard to judge the success or failure of a child until it’s forty, one can at least take an early look to make sure the kid isn’t tearing wings off flies. So,…